VAN BUREN TWP. — A Brown County man who had been kicked out of a relative’s house has been charged with a felony after police say he tried to break in while the couple was gone.
On June 19, Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Colton Magner responded to a home in the 9600 block of Grandview Road. One of the homeowners had found Zachary Warren, 30, outside, the police report said.
The homeowner had come into the house through the garage, then out the front door, he told police. Then he noticed that screens had been torn from the windows. Each window along the front of the house had marks that appeared to be from someone trying to push the window up from the outside, he said.
When he walked to the back of the house to see if there was damage, he met Warren there. The homeowner said that Warren had unlatched a gate and was checking the windows and doors on that side of the home, the report said.
The homeowner said Warren told him he was there to get the $70 he was owed. When the homeowner called his wife, she said she did not owe Warren money and did not make an arrangement for him to come to the house or get money.
Warren was told to leave.
The homeowner told police he watched Warren walk into the woods on a mowed grass path, in the opposite direction of the road. Warren then got in his vehicle and backed out of the woods, which was not a normal parking spot, the report said.
The windows were damaged beyond repair and would have to be replaced, the homeowner said.
On July 27, Warren was charged with residential entry, a Level 6 felony, and criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor.
